Calling it “one of the most significant earthquakes in the history of seismology,” William Ellsworth, chief scientist for the USGS Earthquake Hazards program in California, commended efforts to ...

PASADENA, Calif.–The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004, was one of the worst natural disasters in recent memory, mostly on account of the devastating tsunami that followed it. A group of ...

The devastating earthquake that struck North Sumatra and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Boxing Day in 2004 caused a tsunami that inundated coastal communities around the Indian Ocean, killing over ...

May 25 (UPI) --New research suggests ancient Himalayan sediments account for the severity of the 2004 earthquake in Sumatra. The epicenter of the magnitude 9.2 earthquake occurred just west of Sumatra ...

In the wee hours of December 26, 2004, a massive 9.2 earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean, generating an equally massive tsunami that caused unprecedented devastation to 14 countries and killed ...

The death toll from the earthquake-generated tsunami in Asia and east Africa made 2004 the deadliest year for earthquakes in five centuries, the U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday. The agency ...

A frame of a homemade video shows tourists caught by the first of six tsunami rolling towards Hat Rai Lay Beach, near Krabi in southern Thailand, following a 9.2-Richter submarine earthquake on ...

Chemical transformations in minerals deep beneath the seafloor could explain why Indonesia’s 2004 mega-earthquake was unexpectedly destructive, researchers report in the May 26 Science. The magnitude ...

Just a few times in a century, somewhere on the globe, a rare "tsunami earthquake" occurs. These are mysterious because, while they're just medium-sized as earthquakes go, they cause ...

Lisa McNeill receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council, the Royal Society and the University of Southampton. Ten years on from the devastating Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami, ...